Meaning not yet researched.
Erica: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 156 in 2025. Its best rank was #31 in 1988.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #31 in 1988; #1,399 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Erica in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,399 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1988, at #31.
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Erica: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 156 girls in 2025. Peak: #31 in 1988 · most girls in one year: 9,973 (1986).
In 2025, 156 US girls were named Erica, making it the 1,399th most common girls’ name of the year, up 95 places from #1,494 in 2024. That is 10 more than the 146 girls named Erica in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #31, reached in 1988. The most girls given the name in a single year was 9,973, in 1986. For comparison, it was #686 in 2015 and #809 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Erica in 105 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1909 with 5 babies. In all, 232,637 US babies have been given the name, 99.5% of them girls and 0.4% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 93,682 babies named Erica.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,315 US girls were named Erica; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 355. In 2025 that was about 1 in 10,303 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Erica ranked highest in Oregon in 2025, at #576 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Erika (126,212 babies since 1880), Ericka (23,466 babies since 1880), Jerica (3,914 babies since 1880) and Erykah (1,554 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Erikka, Derica and Ericca are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch and Italian. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Erikka (981), Derica (658), Ericca (580), Rica (525), Errica (368), Erikah (306), Ereka (203), Eryca (161), Erricka (154), Errika (122), Ericah (84), Eurika (81), and more.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Erica in the open dataset we use.
Erica is listed as a nickname for Frederica.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 39 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oregon | 6 | #576 | — |
| Washington | 8 | #760 | #720 |
| Virginia | 8 | #875 | #637 |
| Illinois | 9 | #956 | #701 |
| Florida | 14 | #1,074 | #470 |
| Tennessee | 5 | #1,188 | #871 |
| New York | 10 | #1,351 | #551 |
| Texas | 17 | #1,424 | #799 |
| California | 16 | #1,432 | #750 |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,532 | #785 |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,534 | #485 |
| Georgia | 5 | #1,606 | #569 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 156 | #1,399 | — | — |
| 2024 | 146 | #1,494 | — | — |
| 2023 | 191 | #1,229 | — | — |
| 2022 | 177 | #1,327 | — | — |
| 2021 | 201 | #1,199 | — | — |
| 2020 | 220 | #1,111 | — | — |
| 2019 | 245 | #1,045 | — | — |
| 2018 | 298 | #903 | — | — |
| 2017 | 326 | #835 | — | — |
| 2016 | 355 | #802 | — | — |
| 2015 | 417 | #686 | — | — |
| 2014 | 437 | #653 | — | — |
| 2013 | 526 | #557 | — | — |
| 2012 | 612 | #502 | — | — |
| 2011 | 624 | #475 | — | — |
| 2010 | 745 | #423 | — | — |
| 2009 | 943 | #347 | — | — |
| 2008 | 1,133 | #295 | — | — |
| 2007 | 1,366 | #256 | — | — |
| 2006 | 1,553 | #220 | — | — |
| 2005 | 1,717 | #202 | 6 | #10,498 |
| 2004 | 1,874 | #183 | 11 | #6,678 |
| 2003 | 2,092 | #159 | 5 | #11,424 |
| 2002 | 2,305 | #144 | — | — |
| 2001 | 2,668 | #129 | 8 | #7,764 |
| 2000 | 3,220 | #102 | — | — |
| 1999 | 3,161 | #106 | 9 | #6,690 |
| 1998 | 3,624 | #92 | — | — |
| 1997 | 3,992 | #84 | 6 | #8,480 |
| 1996 | 4,460 | #79 | 13 | #4,692 |
| 1995 | 4,893 | #69 | 20 | #3,349 |
| 1994 | 5,680 | #57 | 20 | #3,367 |
| 1993 | 6,411 | #49 | 14 | #4,304 |
| 1992 | 7,133 | #44 | 19 | #3,379 |
| 1991 | 7,800 | #40 | 40 | #1,931 |
| 1990 | 8,608 | #36 | 47 | #1,709 |
| 1989 | 9,025 | #34 | 68 | #1,330 |
| 1988 | 9,591 | #31 | 54 | #1,433 |
| 1987 | 9,328 | #31 | 51 | #1,431 |
| 1986 | 9,973 | #31 | 59 | #1,262 |
| 1985 | 9,525 | #34 | 61 | #1,220 |
| 1984 | 9,278 | #34 | 55 | #1,243 |
| 1983 | 9,713 | #33 | 54 | #1,256 |
| 1982 | 9,340 | #35 | 50 | #1,325 |
| 1981 | 8,626 | #36 | 35 | #1,671 |
| 1980 | 8,760 | #34 | 36 | #1,633 |
| 1979 | 8,178 | #32 | 38 | #1,542 |
| 1978 | 7,340 | #34 | 37 | #1,545 |
| 1977 | 6,624 | #38 | 30 | #1,756 |
| 1976 | 5,236 | #54 | 25 | #1,952 |
| 1975 | 4,581 | #63 | 31 | #1,641 |
| 1974 | 4,121 | #74 | 25 | #1,846 |
| 1973 | 3,793 | #81 | 24 | #1,837 |
| 1972 | 3,443 | #87 | 25 | #1,785 |
| 1971 | 3,490 | #108 | 21 | #2,001 |
| 1970 | 2,789 | #129 | 13 | #2,659 |
| 1969 | 1,505 | #208 | 9 | #3,138 |
| 1968 | 956 | #280 | 5 | #4,315 |
| 1967 | 681 | #337 | — | — |
| 1966 | 575 | #381 | — | — |
| 1965 | 566 | #388 | — | — |
| 1964 | 541 | #418 | — | — |
| 1963 | 576 | #400 | — | — |
| 1962 | 448 | #456 | — | — |
| 1961 | 243 | #658 | — | — |
| 1960 | 234 | #664 | — | — |
| 1959 | 233 | #656 | — | — |
| 1958 | 206 | #687 | — | — |
| 1957 | 211 | #680 | — | — |
| 1956 | 182 | #711 | — | — |
| 1955 | 146 | #798 | — | — |
| 1954 | 142 | #788 | — | — |
| 1953 | 113 | #889 | — | — |
| 1952 | 94 | #973 | — | — |
| 1951 | 94 | #957 | — | — |
| 1950 | 116 | #809 | — | — |
| 1949 | 89 | #946 | — | — |
| 1948 | 99 | #877 | — | — |
| 1947 | 83 | #974 | — | — |
| 1946 | 67 | #1,036 | — | — |
| 1945 | 66 | #944 | — | — |
| 1944 | 35 | #1,370 | — | — |
| 1943 | 20 | #1,964 | — | — |
| 1942 | 39 | #1,283 | — | — |
| 1941 | 10 | #2,893 | — | — |
| 1940 | 13 | #2,338 | — | — |
| 1939 | 17 | #1,967 | — | — |
| 1938 | 17 | #1,969 | — | — |
| 1937 | 7 | #3,555 | — | — |
| 1935 | 7 | #3,512 | — | — |
| 1934 | 9 | #2,991 | — | — |
| 1933 | 8 | #3,199 | — | — |
| 1932 | 8 | #3,373 | — | — |
| 1931 | 10 | #2,837 | — | — |
| 1929 | 11 | #2,790 | — | — |
| 1928 | 16 | #2,221 | — | — |
| 1927 | 12 | #2,757 | — | — |
| 1926 | 8 | #3,674 | — | — |
| 1925 | 6 | #4,590 | — | — |
| 1924 | 5 | #5,324 | — | — |
| 1919 | 6 | #4,436 | — | — |
| 1917 | 5 | #4,816 | — | — |
| 1916 | 5 | #4,641 | — | — |
| 1915 | 5 | #4,499 | — | — |
| 1909 | 5 | #2,317 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).